- The Washington Times is a newspaper that looks with favor
upon the Bush/Cheney/Obama/neocon wars of aggression in the Middle East
and favors making terrorists pay for 9/11. Therefore, I was surprised to
learn on February 24 that the most popular story on the paper's website
for the past three days was the "Inside the Beltway" report,
"Explosive News," about the 31 press conferences in cities in
the US and abroad on February 19 held by Architects and Engineers for 9/11
Truth, an organization of professionals which now has 1,000 members.
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- I was even more surprised that the news report treated
the press conference seriously. How did three World Trade Center skyscrapers
suddenly disintegrate into fine dust? How did massive steel beams in three
skyscrapers suddenly fail as a result of short-lived, isolated, and low
temperature fires? "A thousand architects and engineers want to know,
and are calling on Congress to order a new investigation into the destruction
of the Twin Towers and Building 7," reports the Washington Times.
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- The paper reports that the architects and engineers have
concluded that the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National
Institute of Standards and Technology provided "insufficient, contradictory
and fraudulent accounts of the circumstances of the towers' destruction"
and are "calling for a grand jury investigation of NIST officials."
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- The newspaper reports that Richard Gage, the spokesperson
for the architects and engineers said: "Government officials will
be notified that "Misprision of Treason,' U.S. Code 18 (Sec. 2382)
is a serious federal offense, which requires those with evidence of treason
to act. The implications are enormous and may have profound impact on the
forthcoming Khalid Sheik Mohammed trial."
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- There is now an organization, Firefighters for 9/11 Truth.
At the main press conference in San Francisco, Eric Lawyer,the head of
that organization, announced the firefighters' support for the architects
and engineers' demands. He reported that no forensic investigation was
made of the fires that are alleged to have destroyed the three buildings
and that this failure constitutes a crime.
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- Mandated procedures were not followed, and instead of
being preserved and investigated, the crime scene was destroyed. He also
reported that there are more than one hundred first responders who heard
and experienced explosions and that there is radio, audio and video evidence
of explosions.
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- Also at the press conference, physicist Steven Jones
presented the evidence of nano-thermite in the residue of the WTC buildings
found by an international panel of scientists led by University of Copenhagen
nano-chemist Professor Niels Harrit. Nano-thermite is a high-tech explosive/pyrotechnic
capable of instantly melting steel girders.
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- Before we yell "conspiracy theory," we should
be aware that the architects, engineers, firefighters, and scientists offer
no theory. They provide evidence that challenges the official theory. This
evidence is not going to go away.
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- If expressing doubts or reservations about the official
story in the 9/11 Commission Report makes a person a conspiracy theory
kook, then we have to include both co-chairmen of the 9/11 Commission and
the Commission's legal counsel, all of whom have written books in which
they clearly state that they were lied to by government officials when
they conducted their investigation, or, rather, when they presided over
the investigation conducted by executive director Philip Zelikow, a member
of President George W. Bush's transition team and Foreign Intelligence
Advisory Board and a co-author of Bush Secretary of State Condi "Mushroom
Cloud" Rice.
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- There will always be Americans who will believe whatever
the government tells them no matter how many times they know the government
has lied to them. Despite expensive wars that threaten Social Security
and Medicare, wars based on non-existent Iraqi weapons of mass destruction,
non-existent Saddam Hussein connections to al Qaida, non-existent Afghan
participation in the 9/11 attacks, and the non-existent Iranian nukes that
are being hyped as the reason for the next American war of aggression in
the Middle East, more than half of the U.S. population still believes the
fantastic story that the government has told them about 9/11, a Muslim
conspiracy that outwitted the entire Western world.
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- Moreover, it doesn't matter to these Americans how often
the government changes its story. For example, Americans first heard of
Osama bin Laden because the Bush regime pinned the 9/11 attacks on him.
Over the years video after video was served up to the gullible American
public of bin Laden's pronouncements. Experts dismissed the videos as fakes,
but Americans remained their gullible selves. Then suddenly last year a
new 9/11 "mastermind" emerged to take bin Laden's place, the
captive Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the detainee waterboarded 183 times until
he confessed to masterminding the 9/11 attack.
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- In the Middle Ages confessions extracted by torture constituted
evidence, but self-incrimination has been a no-no in the U.S. legal system
since our founding. But with the Bush regime and the Republican federal
judges, whom we were assured would defend the U.S. Constitution, the self-incrimination
of Sheik Mohammed stands today as the only evidence the U.S. government
has that Muslim terrorists pulled off 9/11.
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- If a person considers the feats attributed to Khalid
Sheik Mohammed, they are simply unbelievable. Sheik Mohammed is a more
brilliant, capable superhero than V in the fantasy movie, "V for Vendetta."
Sheik Mohammed outwitted all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies along with those
of all U.S. allies or puppets, including Israel's Mossad. No intelligence
service on earth, or all of them combined, was a match for Sheik Mohammed.
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- Sheik Mohammed outwitted the U.S. National Security Council,
Dick Cheney, the Pentagon, the State Department, NORAD, the U.S. Air Force,
and Air Traffic Control. He caused Airport Security to fail four times
in one morning. He caused the state-of-the-art air defenses of the Pentagon
to fail, allowing a hijacked airliner, which was off course all morning
while the U.S. Air Force, for the first time in history, was unable to
get aloft intercepter aircraft, to crash into the Pentagon.
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- Sheik Mohammed was able to perform these feats with unqualified
pilots.
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- Sheik Mohammed, even as a waterboarded detainee, has
managed to prevent the FBI from releasing the many confiscated videos that
would show, according to the official story, the hijacked airliner hitting
the Penagon.
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- How naive do you have to be to believe that any human,
or for that matter Hollywood fantasy character, is this powerful and capable?
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- If Sheik Mohammed has these superhuman capabilities,
how did the incompetent Americans catch him? This guy is a patsy tortured
into confession in order to keep the American naifs believing the government's
conspiracy theory.
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- What is going on here is that the U.S. government has
to bring the 9/11 mystery to an end. The government must put on trial and
convict a culprit so that it can close the case before it explodes. Anyone
waterboarded 183 times would confess to anything.
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- The U.S. government has responded to the evidence being
arrayed against its outlandish 9/11 conspiracy theory by redefining the
war on terror from external to internal enemies. Homeland Security Secretary
Janet Napolitano said on February 21 that American extremists are now as
big a concern as international terrorists. Extremists, of course, are people
who get in the way of the government's agenda, such as the 1,000 Architects
and Engineers for 9/11 Truth. The group used to be 100, now it is 1,000.
What if it becomes 10,000?
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- Cass Sunstein, an Obama regime official, has a solution
for the 9/11 skeptics: Infiltrate them and provoke them into statements
and actions that can be used to discredit or to arrest them. But get rid
of them at all cost.
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- Why employ such extreme measures against alleged kooks
if they only provide entertainment and laughs? Is the government worried
that they are on to something?
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- Instead, why doesn't the U.S. government simply confront
the evidence that is presented and answer it?
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- If the architects, engineers, firefighters, and scientists
are merely kooks, it would be a simple matter to acknowledge their evidence
and refute it. Why is it necessary to infiltrate them with police agents
and to set them up?
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- Many Americans would reply that "their" government
would never even dream of killing Americans by hijacking airliners and
destroying buildings in order to advance a government agenda. But on February
3, National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair told the House Intelligence
Committee that the U.S. government can assassinate its own citizens when
they are overseas. No arrest, trial, or conviction of a capital crime is
necessary. Just straight out murder.
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- Obviously, if the U.S. government can murder its citizens
abroad it can murder them at home, and has done so. For example, 100 Branch
Davidians were murdered in Waco, Texas, by the Clinton administration for
no legitimate reason. The government just decided to use its power knowing
that it could get away with it, which it did.
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- Americans who think "their" government is some
kind of morally pure operation would do well to familiarize themselves
with Operation Northwoods. Operation Northwoods was a plot drawn up by
the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff for the CIA to commit acts of terrorism
in American cities and fabricate evidence blaming Castro so that the U.S.
could gain domestic and international support for regime change in Cuba.
The secret plan was nixed by President John F. Kennedy and was declassified
by the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board. It is available
online in the National Security Archive. There are numerous online accounts
available, including Wikipedia. James Bamford's book, Body of Secrets,
also summarizes the plot:
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- "Operation Northwoods, which had the written approval
of the Chairman [Gen. Lemnitzer] and every member of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, called for innocent people to be shot on American streets; for boats
carrying refugees fleeing Cuba to be sunk on the high seas; for a wave
of violent terrorism to be launched in Washington, D.C., Miami, and elsewhere.
People would be framed for bombings they did not commit; planes would be
hijacked. Using phony evidence, all of it would be blamed on Castro, thus
giving Lemnitzer and his cabal the excuse, as well as the public and international
backing, they needed to launch their war."
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- Prior to 9/11 the American neoconservatives were explicit
that the wars of aggression that they intended to launch in the Middle
East required "a new Pearl Harbor."
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- For their own good and that of the wider world, Americans
need to pay attention to the growing body of experts who are telling them
that the government's account of 9/11 fails their investigation. 9/11 launched
the neoconservative plan for U.S. world hegemony.
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- As I write, the U.S. government is purchasing the agreement
of foreign governments that border Russia to accept U.S. missile interceptor
bases. The U.S. intends to ring Russia with U.S. missile bases from Poland
through central Europe and Kosovo to Georgia, Azerbaijan and central Asia.
U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke declared on February 20 that al Qaida is moving
into former central Asian constituent parts of the Soviet Union, such as
Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan. Holbrooke
is soliciting U.S. bases in these former Soviet republics under the guise
of the ever-expanding "war on terror."
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- The U.S. has already encircled Iran with military bases.
The U.S. government intends to neutralize China by seizing control over
the Middle East and cutting China off from oil.
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- This plan assumes that Russia and China, nuclear armed
states, will be intimidated by U.S. anti-missile defenses and acquiesce
to U.S. hegemony and that China will lack oil for its industries and military.
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- The U.S. government is delusional. Russian military and
political leaders have responded to the obvious threat by declaring NATO
a direct threat to the security of Russia and by announcing a change in
Russian war doctrine to the pre-emptive launch of nuclear weapons. The
Chinese are too confident to be bullied by a washed-up American "superpower."
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- The morons in Washington are pushing the envelope of
nuclear war. The insane drive for American hegemony threatens life on earth.
The American people, by accepting the lies and deceptions of "their"
government, are facilitating this outcome.
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